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Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 592, 2 November 1869, Page 4

GERMAN COLONISTS. : ■♦

(From the Wellington Independent. ) It is much to be regretted, that the depression caused by the war during the last' few years, has prevented the influx to this colony of a very large number of these valuable settlers. On the llangitikei Agricultural Reserve, near Marton, a settlement, which goes by the, name of German Town, is almost entirely composed of the German element, who would, but for 'the reasons we refer to, have collected round them many more of their own people anxious to migrate from, theAustralian colonies, to the more genial climate of New Zealand. We extract the following reference to our German' friends from the Melbourne Herald. It will be read with interest by many of our Rangitikei farmers, who will heartily join with the Victorians, in their appreciation of the merits of their indefatigable neighbors from the "Vaterland" : — "The Gervnaus are proverbially supposed to be rather a' slow, dreamy, beer drinking and pipesmoking people. It is an abominable calumny, and we have proof of its being so under our eyes. The German families are continuing to migrate from South Australia to the wine-growing districts of the Upper Murray, with their blue eyes very wide open indeed to the advantages of the liberal land law of New South Wales. See them, wagon after wagon, steadily keepiug up a line of invasion into the new land, the new homestead, the new industry, tind the new turn in the tide of their worldly affairs. Mark how their solid and calculating minds are penetrating the prospects of the future, and looking forward to the day, not s > very far off, when they will be occupying the wine markets of Victoria, and converting another " Vaterland" of their own in the sunny plains and hill sides (where there are any) of those inexhaustible miles and miles of \irgin territory. It is John Bull who is slp'\v, and dreamy, I and heavy, and not Mein Herr and the Fran, and the Fraulien and her pretty blue-eyed brothers and sisters. Theadmiri.able organisation of the German families ; will ata.nd them in good stead. They are indefatigable, industrious, and they strive together for the common benefit with an union of shrewdness and simplicity of character which renders them positively an attractive social study, Being of a kindred race they mix easily with the English, and teach them many a lesson of social and domestic economy, whiuh we siliall aa.iiiruilly be better for,